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Giantone 08-13-2018 04:30 PM

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Trump deserves this!

Yes ,she is shit but it all falls on him!

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/08/12/omarosas-book-isnt-news-but-what-she-did-sure-is/?utm_term=.2d92aae96d39[/url]

mooby 10-09-2018 10:21 AM

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No link yet but MSN reporting Nikki Haley resigned.

Can't help but think it might be op-ed related, but I'd put equal odds on she hates her job because the UN (excluding Russia/NK) hates the US right now.

Giantone 10-09-2018 11:40 AM

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[quote=mooby;1202442]No link yet but MSN reporting Nikki Haley resigned.

Can't help but think it might be op-ed related, but I'd put equal odds on she hates her job because the UN (excluding Russia/NK) hates the US right now.[/quote]

LOL beat me to it..............


[url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikki-haley-resign-u-n-ambassador-152258353.html[/url]

CRedskinsRule 10-09-2018 05:22 PM

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[QUOTE=mooby;1202442]No link yet but MSN reporting Nikki Haley resigned.

Can't help but think it might be op-ed related, but I'd put equal odds on she hates her job because the UN (excluding Russia/NK) hates the US right now.[/QUOTE]Trump and Nikki had a good joint interview. I think she did a great job, sad to see her go.

mooby 10-09-2018 09:04 PM

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;1202537]Trump and Nikki had a good joint interview. I think she did a great job, sad to see her go.[/quote]

Probably one of the most respected people in the administration, I wouldn't doubt if she's probably just burnt out on the job. I think she's setting herself up though, possibly to take Graham's seat if he joins the admin as AG. She might end up as Trump's running mate in 2020 the way she's handled herself.

CRedskinsRule 10-09-2018 09:19 PM

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[QUOTE=mooby;1202551]Probably one of the most respected people in the administration, I wouldn't doubt if she's probably just burnt out on the job. I think she's setting herself up though, possibly to take Graham's seat if he joins the admin as AG. She might end up as Trump's running mate in 2020 the way she's handled herself.[/QUOTE]I was thinking about her as the running mate too, i wouldnt be surprised if Pence doesnt run with him if a 2nd term remains an option. And i do think she may have burnt out, no doubt that has been an amazing and stressful job.

Giantone 10-10-2018 04:59 AM

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[quote=mooby;1202551]Probably one of the most respected people in the administration, I wouldn't doubt if she's probably just burnt out on the job. I think she's setting herself up though, possibly to take Graham's seat if he joins the admin as AG. She might end up as Trump's running mate in 2020 the way she's handled herself.[/quote]

? so how or why would trump dump Pence?Why would Pence not stay with his "gravy boat"?

mooby 10-10-2018 06:29 AM

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[quote=Giantone;1202563]? so how or why would trump dump Pence?Why would Pence not stay with his "gravy boat"?[/quote]

I'm sure Pence is happy but from Trump's perspective what does he contribute? It seems like Pence is just along for the ride. Plus Haley would help secure the female vote (at least those willing to ignore the constant woman-bashing of every woman he doesn't like).

BaltimoreSkins 10-10-2018 01:32 PM

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Pence served his purpose bring the right wing base of evangelicals. He needs a different angle for reelection.

CRedskinsRule 10-10-2018 10:22 PM

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[QUOTE=BaltimoreSkins;1202602]Pence served his purpose bring the right wing base of evangelicals. He needs a different angle for reelection.[/QUOTE]I would agree and go further and say that with the 2 SC appointees he has made the evangelicals support rock solid barring some crazy position flip, and a VP that brings in women or minorities effectively would be a bold, but clearly political, move.

Giantone 10-18-2018 05:04 AM

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Don McGahn departs as White House counsel, officials say



[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/don-mcgahn-departs-white-house-counsel-officials-say-n921431?cid=par-xfinity_20181018[/url]




The announcement by Trump about McGahn's planned departure came less than two weeks after The New York Times reported that McGahn had spent 30 hours talking with the special counsel Robert Mueller's team, which is investigating Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election and other matters.

CRedskinsRule 10-19-2018 10:32 AM

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Nikki Haley makes jokes that work:
[IMG]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3p71uJceIUkxsw45VxzHvvGevn3M_UryZNUUxDeh9Xv0eOjbAgw[/IMG]

[quote]Here are 10 key lines from Haley's speech:
1. "A couple of weeks ago I had this great breakfast with Cardinal Dolan, and I asked him if there was anything I could do to really boost attendance. ... He said, 'Why don't you resign as UN ambassador?' You didn't tell me you were kidding!"
2. "Jeff Flake was going to be here, but he wanted to give the FBI a week to look into it."
3. "With all of our differences, there is still one thing that unites all 193 [UN member] countries. At one point, every single one of them was paying Paul Manafort."
4. "People always wonder if I felt different or isolated as an Indian-American growing up in rural South Carolina. Actually, there was a benefit. It totally prepared me for being a Republican in New York."
5. "I am still someone who gets very excited about Halloween, but in this toxic environment, even this causes political arguments. Bernie Sanders wants free candy for everyone. Mitch McConnell calls it a typical Democrat giveaway program. The President says its going to be the best Halloween ever -- nothing like it ever before, huge!"
6. "As a member of the UN delegation, I do have diplomatic immunity ... an exemption from prosecution, or as Mayor de Blasio calls it, a sanctuary city! Oh look, I got the mayor a drink up on stage -- no ice!"
7. "People ask me all the time what they should call me -- governor, ambassador, Nikki. You can call me anything, just don't call me anonymous."
8. "I saw Jeff Sessions earlier today -- not in New York. I saw him on LinkedIn looking for a job. Actually, we both were."
9. "I saw when recently [President Barack Obama] said that we're not supposed to use the FBI or the Justice Department to punish political enemies. Comey, McCabe and Strzok said, now you tell us! Turns out what President Obama meant to say -- 'That's what we use the IRS for.'"
10. "The President got really mad about Woodward's book, really mad. The book compared him to a fifth grader. A lot of Democrats seized on that, until they realized, they got beat by a fifth grader."[/quote]

Giantone 10-19-2018 04:53 PM

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A lot O truth in it.

Giantone 11-07-2018 03:09 PM

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Anyone wanna bet it's someone who trump thinks will save his ass now that he lost the House!

Bye bye, Jeff Sessions !

[url]https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-resigns-trumps-request/story?id=59037350[/url]

"At your request, I am submitting my resignation," Sessions wrote in an undated letter to the president.

"Since the day I was honored to be sworn in as Attorney General of the United States, I came to work at the Department of Jusitce every day determined to do my duty and serve my country," Sessions wrote. "I have done so to the best of my ability, working to support the fundamental legal processes that are the foundation of justice."

mooby 11-07-2018 05:32 PM

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So uh, what's the official non-Russian reason Trump wanted Sessions gone?

Giantone 11-08-2018 05:13 AM

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[quote=mooby;1206213]So uh, what's the official non-Russian reason Trump wanted Sessions gone?[/quote]

The guy he replaced him with will stop Mueller .


[url]https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/politics/matthew-whitaker-attorney-general-mueller-special-counsel-probe/index.html[/url]


[url]https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/sessions-replacement-matthew-whitaker-argued-trump-finances-off-limits-to-mueller[/url]



[url]https://www.dailylocal.com/news/national/sessions-replacement-a-critic-of-mueller-probe/video_896760a3-19a3-5dbe-a739-878666a2037e.html[/url]

mooby 11-08-2018 06:11 AM

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Whoa whoa, I said non-Russian reason.

Giantone 11-08-2018 07:37 AM

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Oops ,...........my bad .



Ahhhh, he doesn't like Stormy Daniels! ..............what do I win?

punch it in 11-08-2018 07:46 AM

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[QUOTE=Giantone;1206270]Oops ,...........my bad .







Ahhhh, he doesn't like Stormy Daniels! ..............what do I win?[/QUOTE]



Stormy Daniels is the only person he ever hired who is actually qualified to do their job!

Giantone 11-15-2018 04:15 PM

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Trumps is getting nervous.....

Schneed10 11-15-2018 04:35 PM

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[quote=punch it in;1206273]Stormy Daniels is the only person he ever hired who is actually qualified to do their job![/quote]

lol

mooby 11-15-2018 05:38 PM

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[quote=Giantone;1207323]Trumps is getting nervous.....

://my.xfinihttpsty.com/video/trump-vents-frustrations-with-russia-probe-on-twitter/1371471427664/Comcast/FOXNews_New[LIST=1][/LIST][/quote]

G1 I wouldn't click that link for all King Midas' silver...

That link looks like an access door for the Russians to plant spyware on your computer.

Giantone 12-07-2018 05:58 PM

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This lasted longer than I thought.


[url]https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/07/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff-donald-trump/index.html[/url]


Washington (CNN)John Kelly is expected to resign as White House chief of staff in the coming days, two sources familiar with the situation unfolding in the West Wing tell CNN.

Seventeen months in, Kelly and President Donald Trump have reached a stalemate in their relationship and it is no longer seen as tenable by either party. Though Trump asked Kelly over the summer to stay on as chief of staff for two more years, the two have stopped speaking in recent days.
Trump is actively discussing a replacement plan, though a person involved in the process said nothing is final right now and ultimately nothing is final until Trump announces it. Potential replacements include Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, who is still seen as a leading contender.
Kelly has been on the verge of resigning or being fired before, only to bounce back every time. But aides feel the relationship can't be salvaged this time. Trump is becoming increasingly concerned about Democrats taking over the House in January, and has privately said he needs someone else to help shape the last two years of his first term, which he predicts will be politically focused. He has complained repeatedly that Kelly is not politically savvy.
The

mooby 12-07-2018 09:36 PM

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Right now he needs yes men that can convince him everything's gonna be alright. John Kelly doesn't fit that profile.

Giantone 12-09-2018 11:15 AM

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[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt6k9B5WoAAaDGw.jpg:large[/IMG]



I thought this was pretty good.

MTK 12-12-2018 03:18 PM

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Cohen gets 3 years. 9 felonies.


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mooby 12-13-2018 04:47 PM

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[quote=MTK;1212884]Cohen gets 3 years. 9 felonies.


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Well, now that the DOJ brought down that kingpin, Trump can sleep easy knowing nobody stands in his way to handle his agenda.

Giantone 12-14-2018 09:09 PM

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[quote=mooby;1213012]Well, now that the DOJ brought down that kingpin, Trump can sleep easy knowing nobody stands in his way to handle his agenda.[/quote]



LOL, maybe.

[url]https://www.vox.com/2018/12/14/18140744/paul-manafort-trump-russia-mueller-investigation[/url]

Paul Manafort, who served as the manager for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, provided advice to the president and senior White House officials on the FBI’s Russia investigation during the earliest days of the Trump administration. He gave guidance on how to undermine and discredit the FBI’s inquiry into whether the president, his campaign aides, and family members conspired with the Russian Federation and its intelligence services to covertly defeat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, according to government records and interviews with individuals familiar with the matter. Manafort himself was under criminal investigation by the FBI during this same time, a fact then known to the White House.

Last Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller alleged in court filings that Manafort told “multiple discernible lies” to FBI agents and prosecutors, in violation of the cooperation agreement between Manafort and the special counsel’s office. Among those, Mueller charged, were lies by Manafort to investigators that he had not been in contact with anyone in the White House.

JPPT1974 12-14-2018 11:11 PM

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Yeah as the former friends and advisers are trying to make that of in the President look really bad. And that he blames that the Democrats are not being prosecuted the way he is. But he did bring it on himself there. But nobody knows the whole story. Mueller is mum.

MTK 12-15-2018 10:31 AM

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[URL="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415988-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-steps-down"]Interior chief Zinke to leave administration[/URL]

MTK 12-15-2018 08:05 PM

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When trash talk goes wrong

[IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181216/0933578b2e123e32680cc835b50c0a54.jpg[/IMG]


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Giantone 12-20-2018 09:07 PM

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Pentagon chief Mattis quits in disagreement with Trump policies

[url]https://www.yahoo.com/[/url]




Pentagon chief Mattis quits in disagreement with Trump policies
Reuters By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, one day after Trump rebuffed top advisers and decided to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.

Mattis announced plans to resign after a face-to-face meeting with Trump in which they aired their differences, a senior White House official said.

"Because you have a right to a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position," Mattis said in his resignation letter, released by the Pentagon[CENTER][/CENTER]

MTK 12-21-2018 09:22 AM

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Don't hate on the winning G1 you're just jealous

jamf 12-21-2018 01:42 PM

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[quote=Giantone;1213823]Pentagon chief Mattis quits in disagreement with Trump policies

[url]https://www.yahoo.com/[/url]




Pentagon chief Mattis quits in disagreement with Trump policies
Reuters By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, one day after Trump rebuffed top advisers and decided to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.

Mattis announced plans to resign after a face-to-face meeting with Trump in which they aired their differences, a senior White House official said.

"Because you have a right to a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position," Mattis said in his resignation letter, released by the Pentagon[CENTER][/CENTER][/quote]

We all know Mattis is a nancy boy who pees sitting down. Nothing to see here. Fake News.

Giantone 12-21-2018 05:16 PM

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[quote=MTK;1213829]Don't hate on the winning G1 you're just jealous[/quote]



LOL, evidently.

mooby 12-21-2018 08:07 PM

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[quote=jamf;1213850]We all know Mattis is a nancy boy who pees sitting down. Nothing to see here. Fake News.[/quote]

Everybody knows Mattis was the most unstable force in one of the most powerful positions. He wasn't just a danger to himself, he was a danger to everyone else too. Trump had no choice but to force his resignation.

MTK 12-22-2018 11:48 AM

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How much winning can we take at this point? Two cabinet resignations in the last week, the stock market continues to spiral down, we're in a shutdown, and Trump is pulling out of Syria. So much winning.

Oh and now Trump wants to fire the Fed chair due to the latest interest rate increase.

Giantone 12-22-2018 01:22 PM

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[quote=MTK;1213880]How much winning can we take at this point? Two cabinet resignations in the last week, the stock market continues to spiral down, we're in a shutdown, and Trump is pulling out of Syria. So much winning.

Oh and now Trump wants to fire the Fed chair due to the latest interest rate increase.[/quote]

.........but , but but we got $20 a week back in our pay checks,................I heard.

Giantone 12-22-2018 02:44 PM

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Brett McGurk

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-envoy-to-anti-is-coalition-quits-over-trumps-syria-move/2018/12/22/32963026-0604-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html?utm_term=.629fe011e46e[/url]


WASHINGTON — Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest over President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, a U.S. official said, joining Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in an administration exodus of experienced national security figures.

Only 11 days ago, McGurk had said it would be “reckless” to consider IS defeated and therefore would be unwise to bring American forces home. McGurk decided to speed up his original plan to leave his post in mid-February.

Appointed to the post by President Barack Obama in 2015 and retained by Trump, McGurk said in his resignation letter that the militants were on the run, but not yet defeated, and that the premature pullout of American forces from Syria would create the conditions that gave rise to IS. He also cited gains in accelerating the campaign against IS, but that the work was not yet done.


His letter, submitted Friday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was described to The Associated Press on Saturday by an official familiar with its contents. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter before the letter was released and spoke on condition of anonymity.

In a tweet shortly after news of McGurk’s resignation broke, Trump again defended his decision to pull all of the roughly 2,000 U.S. forces from Syria in the coming weeks.

“We were originally going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago - we never left,” Trump tweeted. “When I became President, ISIS was going wild. Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming home!”

Although the civil war in Syria has gone on since 2011, the U.S. did not begin launching airstrikes against IS until September 2014, and American troops did not go into Syria until 2015.

McGurk, whose resignation is effective Dec. 31, was planning to leave the job in mid-February after a U.S.-hosted meeting of foreign ministers from the coalition countries, but he felt he could continue no longer after Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria and Mattis’ resignation, according to the official.

Trump declaration of a victory over IS has been roundly contradicted by his own experts’ assessments, and his decision to pull troops out was widely denounced by members of Congress, who called his action rash and dangerous.

Mattis, perhaps the most respected foreign policy official in the administration, announced on Thursday that he will leave by the end of February. He told Trump in a letter that he was departing because “you have a right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours.”

The withdrawal decision will fulfill Trump’s goal of bringing troops home from Syria, but military leaders have pushed back for months, arguing that the IS group remains a threat and could regroup in Syria’s long-running civil war. U.S. policy has been to keep troops in place until the extremists are eradicated.

Among officials’ key concerns is that a U.S. pullout will leave U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces vulnerable to attacks by Turkey, the Syrian government and remaining IS fighters. The SDF, a Kurdish-led force, is America’s only military partner in Syria

A second official said McGurk on Friday was pushing for the U.S. to allow the SDF to reach out to troops allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government for protection. McGurk argued that America had a moral obligation to help prevent the allied fighters from being slaughtered by Turkey, which considers the SDF an enemy.

McGurk said at a State Department briefing on Dec. 11 that “it would be reckless if we were just to say, ‘Well, the physical caliphate is defeated, so we can just leave now.’ I think anyone who’s looked at a conflict like this would agree with that.”

A week before that, Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. had a long way to go in training local Syrian forces to prevent a resurgence of IS and stabilize Syria. He said it would take 35,000 to 40,000 local troops in northeastern Syria to maintain security over the long term, but only about 20 percent of that number had been trained.

McGurk, 45, previously served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran, and during the negotiations for the landmark Iran nuclear deal by the Obama administration, led secret side talks with Tehran on the release of Americans imprisoned there.

McGurk, was briefly considered for the post of ambassador to Iraq after having served as a senior official covering Iraq and Afghanistan during President George W. Bush’s administration.

A former Supreme Court law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, McGurk worked as a lawyer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and joined Bush’s National Security Council staff, where in 2007 and 2008, he was the lead U.S. negotiator on security agreements with Iraq.

Taking over for now for McGurk will be his deputy, retired Lt. Gen. Terry Wolff, who served three tours of active duty in Iraq.

Jim Jeffrey, a veteran diplomat who was appointed special representative for Syria engagement in August, is expected to stay in his position, officials said.

IS militants still hold a string of villages and towns along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, where they have resisted weeks of attacks by the U.S.-supported Syrian Democratic Forces to drive them out. The pocket is home to about 15,000 people, among them 2,000 IS fighters, according to U.S. military estimates.

But that figure could be as high as 8,000 militants, if fighters hiding out in the deserts south of the Euphrates River are also counted, according to according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict through networks of local informants. Military officials have also made it clear that IS fighters fleeing Euphrates River region have found refuge in other areas of the country, fueling concerns that they could regroup and rise again.

The SDF said Thursday: “The war against Islamic State has not ended and the group has not been defeated.”

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Associated Press writer Susannah George contributed to this artical

mooby 12-22-2018 10:53 PM

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TL;DR: We're on the 30 yard line with a 3 point lead and 5 minutes to go. The offense is moving the ball just fine. But wait! Coach is pulling all the starters and putting reserves in, declaring the game is already won!


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